Some quick initial X-Files reports from the NYC Comic Con this weekend.
Check out the nifty video interview with the guys at Fearnet.com and Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz.
Then read the article that accompanies it.
BIG COMICS news for the X-Files- excerpted from Fearnet
“Spotnitz actually ended up revealing some information that DC comics was attempting to keep under wraps until tomorrow at their panels!! According to Spotnitz, “DC is launching an X-Files comic series,” giving Mulder and Scully a well-deserved, much-appreciated life beyond TV and film. Longtime fans will recall that Topps previously held the license to produce X-Files comics, but this marks the first-time the house of Superman, Batman, etc. is throwing its hat into the X-Files ring. And why not? Superhero fans want to believe too!”
THE BIG News that EW got has this headline…..
‘X-Files’ creator Chris Carter wants to believe in a third movie featuring Mulder and Scully
That is correct! Chris Carter thinks that Mulder and Scully deserve a third movie to finish out the work they started so many years ago.
The truth is out there…as a trilogy? X-Files creator Chris Carter has revealed that he has ambitions to make at least one more movie detailing the adventures of
Mulder and Scully. “We would like to make another film,” Carter told EW.com on Friday, prior to his appearance at this year’s New York Comic Con. “We’re not under the illusion that it’s a given; we’ve got to perform with [this summer's X-Files: I Want to Believe] in order to give it another day.”
Another installment would make three films in the franchise, following 1998’s The X-Files and the forthcoming, Carter-directed, I Want to Believe, which debuts in theaters July 25 and is a stand alone monster-of-the-week-type venture. But Carter suggested that a future movie might re-engage with the original TV show’s overarching alien-invasion plot. Doing so could be timely given that, according to X-Files mythology, the final stage of said invasion is due to start in December 2012. “Well, we didn’t think that one up,” Carter said. “That is actually part of the literature. It is a Mayan date. But I think we’d like to revisit that whole storyline.”
From New York Comic Con: More ‘X-Files’ tidbits
From 4-19 on EW
X-Files creator Chris Carter and regular franchise writer Frank Spotnitz brought two things to their panel at New York Comic Con yesterday evening: (1) A teaser-trailer for the out-in-July film The X-Files: I Want to Believe that was too short and sharply edited to reveal anything substantial plot-wise (though it did feature the sight of David Duchovny’s Mulder asking Gillian Anderson’s Scully for help with something or other); and (2) a determination not to reveal anything else at all about the movie.
As Carter, who directed I Want to Believe, made clear from the start: ”I think everyone wants to be surprised on July 25.” Fair enough. But that didn’t stop various members of the gathered throng trying to get info from the pair — mostly in vain.
Question: Are we going to see the Lone Gunmen?
Carter’s answer: ”Deny everything.”
Will we be surprised by the evolution of Mulder and Scully’s relationship?
Carter: ”I don’t know.”
On the subject of the sci-fi sequel’s much-rumored ‘’steamy love scene” between its two principals, Carter joked that the sequence had been neither axed before filming nor cut in the editing room but was actually in the movie. He later made it doubly clear this was a gag by saying that actor Mitch Pileggi, who plays Mulder and Scully’s FBI boss, was in the sequence too. But the pair did let slip a handful of apparently genuine titbits about the movie. Scully’s family, it seems, does not feature in the film, and neither does Lance Henricksen’s X-Files-universe character Frank Black. The pair also confirmed that Amanda Peet and Xzibit play FBI agents in the movie, and Spotnitz said that DC Comics would be announcing a new line of X-Files comics the next day (prompting Carter to point out that Spotnitz had basically just announced that himself: ”Don’t tell anyone!”). Finally, the genial, silver-haired Carter laughed that he had not read any fan fiction to get inspiration for the movie’s presumably non-existent sex scene, but that he appreciated the genre: ”People are living more hot and racy lives than me.”
From Newsarama- which has full coverage of the NYC Comic Con-
X-Files creator Chris Carter and producer Frank Spotnitz attended the NY Comic Con Friday evening in support of the X-Files upcoming return to the big screen in X-Files: I Want to Believe.
They stopped by the Newsarama digital newsroom to discuss the film with us and in the following preview of the interview, the pair discuss what makes the X-Files concept relevant today, and they try their best not to reveal to us just want that title means.
check out this video interview with Frank Spotnitz and Chris Carter and the Newsarama team
